
Our Gardening Guides are a comprehensive set of guides for making the best use of your garden space. Whatever your intended garden style it's important to know your plot, so you can make the best use of what you've got. Plants are too expensive nowadays to keep replacing them because they are not well located in the first place.
Introduction Starting Out is an introduction to discovering your own garden space.
Light and Shadow introduces light and shadow in the garden space, their effect on plants and how to 'read the signs'.
Local Temperature: Discover the effects of local temperature on the garden's microclimate.
Local Prevailing winds: Their effect on your garden and how to design and plant accordingly.
Which Garden is for you - recognising what you want.
Choosing gardening tools - Practical advice on choosing your garden tools and what to look for.
Garden Compost and Garden Soil Garden Soil: Easy to follow information on your garden soil
Garden Compost: Easy to follow details on what to put in and what not to put in a garden compost bin and how to build your own. Gardening ebooks available on composting and building your own wormery and more!
Soil Aeration: Let your plants breathe.
The Plants Plant Hardiness: Plants are surprisingly resilient and resist dying whenever they have the opportunity. Here we show you how you can help your plants help themselves.
Which plant, which soil: The gardening guide that shows which plants are suitable for which soils in your garden.
House Plant Care: Provides on one page, the basics to avoiding an untimely end for your houseplants.
Winter Plant Care Guide Part 1 Advice and practical suggestions.
Winter Plant Care Guide Part 2 Even more advice and practical suggestions.
How to grow wisteria: How to grow wisteria and avoid a blooming failure.
How to grow clematis: How to grow clematis provides full details on cultivating these ever-popular climbers.
Hanging Baskets: Top tips on how to plant up a fantastic hanging basket.
The Design and Development of a Mixed Herbaceous Flower Border - Parts 1 and 2.
Slugs, snails and caterpillars: How to eradicate them.
Garden Structures and hard landscaping
How to build a horizontal palisade fence that will not only protect your garden, it will also provide a support for your plants.
Useful tips and ideas for building garden decking making it long-lasting and safer.
|